Ludwig Emilson JU0A

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One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest is directed by Milos Forman with jack Nicholson staring the lead. It isnt hard to find films or books with a similar message as the cuckoos Nest since there are a lot of films criticising the society and the authorities. The film, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest is a story about R.P McMurphy a person who is admitted from jail to a psychiatric in patient ward. At the ward he turns everything upside down by provoking the wards staff through dangerous acts like kidnapping the other patients and taking them on a field trip to sea and by criticising the, by staff the usual scheduled activities at the ward. Nurse Ratched, the head nurse of the ward, more a dictator though, holds a grudge towards McMurphy because of his innovational thinking and his attempts to stretch the wards traditional set of regulations. He does everything to make her angry and questioning here authority. With his fellow patients he turns the whole ward upside down. What McMurphy doesnt realise, until later, is that he is the only patient who are forced to be there the others are there by their own free will. When McMurphy realises that he is admitted by force to the ward, he plans the escape together with Chief, an Indian who everybody think is def-mute through a solid acting. Due to McMurphys disorderly behaviour he finally gets lobotomized. When Chief realises it, he suffocates McMurphy (as an act of mercy) with a pillow and flees the ward. The film criticise the metal health care institutions and questioning who is ill, the care system or the patients. The staff at the ward are stuck in their old habits, old ways of working and dictatorial methods such as refusing to let the patient do stimulating activities. The films message reflects through Mc Murphy and his acts, tough they are dangerous and irresponsible. I think that the ward is a metaphor for all the oppression in the society, we need to think for our self and questioning the authority to realise how we treat our fellows. The message is that it is hard to be accepted if you are different from other people.